Strengthen support for African agriculture “Double rice production” Prime Minister Abe, August 28, 14:20
In line with the TICAD = African Development Conference, Prime Minister Abe attended the symposium held in Yokohama and said, “I want to double the production of rice by dispatching agricultural specialists,” agriculture in African countries. He expressed his idea to strengthen support in the field.
On the afternoon of 28th, Prime Minister Abe attended a symposium held by a Japanese NGO, which has been supporting agricultural development for more than 30 years in Africa, in time for TICAD to open in Yokohama.
Among them, Prime Minister Abe said, “Since 2013, more than 1,200 students from 54 African countries, including agriculture, have studied at graduate schools in Japan, gained work experience at Japanese companies, and pulled each country after returning to Japan. We are active as human resources to do ".
After that, "NGOs and related organizations in the country cooperated to develop local agricultural human resources, so that agricultural experts went to the local area, etc., and by 2030, rice production was doubled to 56 million. "I want to make it a ton," he said, and expressed his intention to strengthen support in the agricultural sector to African countries.